Ritratti

                      

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                      Oil on canvas (50 x 70 cm)

               

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Ritratti

    Autoritratto (50 x 70 cm)
    oil on canvas

Ritratti

                        Lo scrittore Enzo Barnabà (70 x 50 cm)
                        oil on canvas

https://wdrmedien-a.akamaihd.net/medp/podcast/weltweit/fsk0/182/1823076/cosmoradiocolonia_2019-01-22_cosmoradiocoloniaganzesendung22012019_cosmo.mp3

Sentiero: Il Passo della Morte

                                          Segno lasciato da un artista
                                          oil on canvas (30 x 40 cm)

"Sign left by an artist"

When I saw this logo and then I did the painting I thought of what Joseph Beuys taught us:
"everyone is an artist". With this he meant that each of us placed in a just social context can become and with his work can contribute to changes. For Beuys, creation is creativity; this is his concept of art. He also declares that like bees in a beehire, humans too should work for each other and not just for themselves. I saw the logo and made me think about this concept.... Scout have marked a path...

                                      Pausa dentro un casolare attorno a vestiti e scarpe
                                      di alcuni giovani ragazzi africani
                                      oil on canvas (30 x 40 cm )

"Pauses inside a cottage around clothes and shoes of some young african boys"

What  I really saw inside the abandoned cottage is not seen in the painting but what we read in the title. Sitting next to each other were young african boys who were waiting to continue their journey. Their eyes, their looks remained impressed.
In my project I had set the rule that i would have only photographed and reported on canvas objects not people, but those objects contain the history of many human beings.

In the following link you can buy the book:

https://www.infinitoedizioni.it/prodotto/il-passo-della-mortestorie-e-immagini-di-passaggio-lungo-la-frontiera-tra-italia-e-francia/

Il Passo della Morte.

In the following link you can buy the book:

https://www.infinitoedizioni.it/prodotto/il-passo-della-mortestorie-e-immagini-di-passaggio-lungo-la-frontiera-tra-italia-e-francia/

On July 8, 2017 I met Enzo Barnabà, a writer living in Grimaldi (Ventimiglia). He pointed to me a path between woods and mountains that many migrants, especially africans, travel to reach France and from there maybe go to the countries of northern Europe.

I went through the barbed wire net  I came to France. During this journey I photographed objects, signs, letters and letters written by those who passed by.

Back home I picked up the material and from this I made nine oil canvases every 30 x 40 cm.

jeans e maglietta imprigionati tra i rami 

jeans and shirt imprisoned among the branches 

ammasso disordinato di vestiti nel bosco

disorderly clutter of clothes in the woods

 

Enzo ha trovato un importante foglietto

Enzo found an important slip of paper

 

pausa dentro un casolare attorno a vestiti e scarpe di alcuni giovani ragazzi africani

pauses inside a cottage around clothes and shoes of some young african boys

 

ragazzi berlinesi?

berlin guys?

 

segno lasciato da un artista

sign left by an artist

foglietto al di là della rete di filo spinato

Leaf beyond the barbed wire mesch

 

sui muri di case Gina

On the walls of Gina’s homes

 

senza titolo

Without title

After performing these canvases, I asked Enzo if he wanted to write something about this road he knew so well. He asked me if I could run three more canvases; these are not „things“ I met up there, but all this will allow him to tell us things happened in the recent past.

scimmie (50 x 70 cm)

monkeys

les avions renifleurs (50 x 70 cm)
the reconnaissance aircraft

anno 1939 (50 x 70 cm)
Year 1939



And this is the canvas that I've decided to do after Enzo has written the introduction:

Biamonti e la frontiera (100x70 cm)

Biamonti and the Border 

Lo scrittore Enzo Barnabà (70x 50 cm)
The writer Enzo Barnbà

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